CC Sabathia (Carsten Charles Sabathia Jr.) Quotes
Before I came here, I had people telling me what a tough place New York is, how other players came here and struggled. But I never let that bother me. I came here because I want to win.
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I really like this trend of songwriting that is honest and intelligent and serious and longing.
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Isolation is a self-defeating dream.
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If you're a thinking person, the liver is interesting, but nothing is more intriguing than the brain.
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Game-playing is more fun when it's virtual because you're more successful. ... in reality, only one person gets to be LeBron.
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Beyond 2050 the world population may start to decrease if women across the world will have, on average, less than 2 children. But that decrease will be slow.
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The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.
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Once you join the queue for the immigration line, pay attention to what the expeditor tells you. Have your papers ready. Don't have your cell phone out. Take off your hat. Open your passport to the page with your photo and present it to the immigration officer already open.
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I've been brought up with the Christian faith with my family.
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It kind of scares me, the notion that we're going to be injecting ourselves into other countries' affairs when they're not posing a threat to our security. I wouldn't be telling Israel what to do.
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I think that Pebble Beach is my favorite golf course to go to. I think Augusta is my favorite place to go play golf.
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I've always been interested in the gangster genre, so to play Mickey Cohen was a real thrill. It's always fun to do your take on someone so iconic.
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In life, there's no such thing as an unmitigated good.
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I'm not a good dancer, but I try. I don't really have the moves.
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We're about to shoot an episode on Air Force One, for instance, and we're going to take liberties, small liberties, with Air Force One, as we take small liberties with our White House set.
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I would love to work with someone like Kevin Spacey as he could pass on what I need to learn.
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World belongs to humanity, not this leader, that leader or that king or prince or religious leader. World belongs to humanity.
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Obviously, you need talent to do well in your sport, but I think hard work goes a long way. You need to be lucky within the sport too, though. In badminton, you can benefit from good draws and people getting injured.
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But the exposure we got by doing the stint with Nine Inch Nails brought us a lot of attention.
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I was reading this story about these people who suffered from brain injuries, and then their behavior changed kind of drastically afterward, and I just said to myself, 'There's no way that that can possibly be true.'
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I like to write in coffee shops in countries in which languages I do not speak are spoken. That way, you're surrounded by the buzz of humanity, but you aren't distracted by people's conversations.
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One of the hardest things for a ball player to do is to accept his role
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I have studied religion, and I have concluded that there is some power. We don't understand it.
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Before I came here, I had people telling me what a tough place New York is, how other players came here and struggled. But I never let that bother me. I came here because I want to win.
